Damien Kingsbury holds a Personal Chair and is Professor of International Politics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include assertions of self-determination, the role of the military in politics, post-colonial political structures, and nation formation. He is the author of Sri Lanka and the responsibility to protect: politics, ethnicity and genocide (2012), and East Timor: the price of liberty (2009).

1. The role of resources in the resolution of the Western Sahara issue 2. The taking of the Sahara: the role of natural resources in the continuing occupation of Western Sahara 3. Western Sahara, resources, and international accountability 4. The status of Western Sahara as occupied territory under international humanitarian law and the exploitation of natural resources 5. The hidden cost of phosphate fertilizers: mapping multi-stakeholder supply chain risks and impacts from mine to fork [...] role of natural resources in the building of an independent Western Sahara 7. Independence by fiat: a way out of the impasse - the self-determination of Western Sahara, with lessons from Timor-Leste 8. Saharawi conflict phosphates and the Australian dinner table